In 2017 Bushcare’s Major Day Out merged with Conservation Volunteers. By combining Bushcare’s leagues of dedicated volunteers with our network of 20
offices and over 200 staff, we are mobilising communities to roll up their sleeves and take part in caring for their local, urban and regional
bushland, wetlands and parks.

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For more information on how to get involved, please contact us: bmdo@cva.org.au

The Friends of Parks Board has now endorsed ‘role descriptions’ for Board members.

You may well ask ‘Why is this needed at all’ ? as Friends of Parks is a volunteer organisation.

The role of the Board has evolved since the organisation first became an incorporated body, with a constitution and board of management back in 1993. In
those early days it was more an informal body that oversaw the grant governance arrangements commensurate with the new constitution.

Fast forward to 2018 and there is a very different operating environment in place. The environmental sector is much more complicated and diverse with lots
of competing demands - the market place is more competitive, social/political and economic changes are happening faster and more consistently, legislation
and governance requirements continue to evolve.

To ensure that the Friends of Parks organisation maintains its place as one of the peak volunteer organisation in South Australia, providing practical
hands on support in parks, the Board has also needed to evolve and adapt to the changing circumstances.

To meet these changes, and in so doing provide more consistent support to member groups, it has developed a business plan consisting of five (5) separate
sub-programs, with Board members taking a more primary role in driving business outcomes for the organisation as a whole. As a result the skill requirements
needed by Board members has also changed. Board members need to be experienced and savvy in a number of areas, and this is expressed in the role descriptions
for Board members – it is just one example of how much things have changed.

So, if you feel that you have something to contribute to the Board, please nominate to be a Committee member for the 2018 AGM.

Looking forward to seeing you at the AGM, to be held on Monday, 30 April 2018, at 9.30 am, at the Morialta Natural Resource Centre.

Nominations for the 2018 Australian Natural History Medallion are open. This year all communication, as far as is practicable, will be via email. Signed
nominations and supporting documentation should be forwarded via email as pdf files. Larger documents may still be sent via post to the FNCV Blackburn
address as indicated on the attached documents.

Please feel free to circulate to other networks.

Don’t hesitate to contact if you have any questions or require assistance.

Facebook is a great way to share an organisation’s activities and discoveries on social media. Currently 70% of the total Australian population use Facebook!
The Friends of Parks SA is no exception, so our page was launched at the 2016 FOP Forum in October 2016.

Earlier that year, we had sent out an appeal for volunteers interested in setting up a social media presence, and a number ofinterested young people responded.
They were Ali Barett, Mitchell Brennan, Mick Brennan, Gabriele Kwan andlater, Sarah Nightingale. They decided to set up a discussion group on Facebook
to work out how to do it. .John Fleming from Friends of Black Hill and Morialta, and Michelle Richards from Friends of Anstey Hill were also members
of the group. Ashleigh Coombe, Pam Smith and Carole Pinnock from Friends of Parks Board provided background and logistical help. Ali had a background
in Health Promotion and Facebook experience and agreed to lead the team. She did extensive research and set us up with some ideas and rules for how
to proceed.

We launched in October 2016, and celebrated success and 384 subscribers 12 months later with a lunch at the Revolucion Mexicana restaurant in Adelaide
(see picture).

From left around the table: Michael Brennan, Carole Pinnock, Sarah Nightingale, Ashleigh Coombs, Ali Barrett, Mitchell Brennan, Pam Smith (Gabriele Kwan
not able to make it).

As of February 2018, we have 512 subscribers or ‘follows’.

‘The great thing about being a curator on our FB page, is that you get to know all the cool things that are happening in our parks, and the amazing things
some of our Friends groups are doing’ said Carole, one of the page’s volunteers. For example this week we learnt about a new fish discovered on Kangaroo
Island, great rock pools to visit in SA parks, work on the wildflowergarden by Friends of Black Hill and Morialta and a great Citizen Science initiative,
an Echidna app can that can help track echidna populations. If it’s happening in Parks, you get to hear about it!

Would you like to join us? Our content curators post for two weeks every 3 months, so it’s not a lot of work and thereis plenty of help available. Just
visit our page at https://www.facebook.com/Friendsofparkssa/ and send us a message!

Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (SSAA): Founding Member, Activity Coordinator and Team Leader Conservation and Wildlife Management, South
Australia Branch, since 1992. Past President and Secretary. Life Member.

Co-ordinator, 'Bounce Back' Program, South Australia National Parks, since 1992.

Co-ordinator, 'Feral Predator' Program, Flinders Rangers National Park, for over 20 years.

Nature Foundation South Australia: Member, since 2000.

Inaugural Member, Friends of the Nature Foundation Committee, since 2008.

Member,Nature Reserve Management Committee, since 2009.

Former Feral Animal Control Expert, National Parks and Wildlife Outback Consultative Committee, Department of Environment and Natural Resources South Australia,
1990s.